No, you can have my SO when you pry him from my cold dead fingers. (Poor SO.)
When we landed here you said you needed a few days to get space worthy again and is there somethin' wrong with your bunk?
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Betsy HP - Nov 15, 2005 9:31:19 am PST #4310 of 10006
If I only had a brain...
Kathy A - Nov 15, 2005 9:32:21 am PST #4311 of 10006
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'm out of here early, too, so I can pick up my NEW CAR!! Of course, I'll be crying when my first new car payment is due, so the excitement is going to be short-lived.
I did get a very nice '06 Civic, with a moonroof and everything, so I'm pretty happy with the deal. (Smartest thing I did was walk into the dealership with a financing offer from LendingTree, which the dealer ended up matching and cutting the cost of the car by a grand to get it to the approved loan amount. Considering that the Civics are selling like mad, deals on them are few and far between.)
Cass - Nov 15, 2005 9:36:11 am PST #4312 of 10006
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I loved my Civic unreasonably, especially the moonroof. Congratulations on the new car and the deal.
Today was a choice between no pain and no brain. Am dumb now.
Happy Birthday, sumi!
TomW - Nov 15, 2005 9:37:21 am PST #4313 of 10006
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Winkles are mussels, so a winkle picker is something pointy enough to pry open a mussel.
Not quite. A winkle-picker is even metaphorically pointier than that. A winkle (short for periwinkle) is smaller than a mussel and lacks the convenient pryability of the mussel's bivalves.
Which is a long way of saying that the pointiness required to pick out the winkle is pointy to the pointy extreme. I think that was my point.
tommyrot - Nov 15, 2005 9:43:23 am PST #4314 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
For aviation geeks - Boeing has decided to go ahead with a larger version of the 747, rather than see 747 production end. The new version will still be smaller than the new Airbus A380, but the new 747 will be more fuel-efficient from a passenger-mile (the cost to carry one passenger one mile) standpoint. For decades, the 747 has had the lowest passenger-mile cost, but the new A380 will beat the current 747 in that criteria.
The A380 did end up overweight, which will hurt its passenger-mile performance.
Boeing's site: [link]
A news site - note the pretty curved wings of the new 747: [link]
Eddie - Nov 15, 2005 9:48:22 am PST #4315 of 10006
Your tag here.
Smartest thing I did was walk into the dealership with a financing offer from LendingTree, which the dealer ended up matching and cutting the cost of the car by a grand to get it to the approved loan amount.
Yeah, I did the same thing when I purchased my truck (albeit not LendingTree) and it's amazing how you suddenly become the car salesman's best friend when you wave a check under their nose. "Knock a grand off? Sure! No problem, buddy!"
Cass - Nov 15, 2005 9:48:26 am PST #4316 of 10006
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Was 24 cancelled and I missed it?
Wolfram - Nov 15, 2005 9:49:31 am PST #4317 of 10006
Visilurking
Allyson - Nov 15, 2005 9:56:28 am PST #4318 of 10006
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
OMG, you can add lush products to an Amazon wishlist. I just WENT TO TOWN.
Cass - Nov 15, 2005 9:59:09 am PST #4319 of 10006
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Ah, a January premiere. Thanks!
I just realized that with new seasons starting, I hadn't seen it and, since the proverbial they slipped West Wing passed me for a few weeks before I realized it was on, I was confused. And didn't think to check, oh, say, their Web site. Do we know if this year is Keiferless? Because I adores him.